 Good morning everybody. My name is Bobby Koreshi. I'm the education director for CNM, having worked for CNM now for about five or six years. I've seen more of the general sort of nutrition route, acupuncture, herbal medicine route and I think there is such incredible scope for health coaches in the medical profession. People need you, people really need you. So we've worked really hard to create this course to make it effective and to make it suitable for everybody and I'm sure that all of you will absolutely love it. Now I've been responsible for putting together module one of the course which is called How the Body Works, which is pretty much titled perfectly because that's what you're going to be looking at. We're going to be spending 14 lectures going through a whole range of topics that cover all the different parts of the body. We'll be looking at the different systems of the body, the different organs that make up the human body and we'll also be looking at what happens when those sorts of things go slightly wrong because ultimately as health coaches a lot of what you'll be working with will be to try and support clients whilst they have diagnosed illnesses. So it's important that you're able to support them on their journey and guide them back towards health. So we're going to be talking a lot about illness and disease and we'll be talking about how people do get from health towards illness and towards disease and that journey is quite important because by understanding that you will be better positioned to really help people because the advice that you give them will be targeted towards them as an individual. We'll recognize that everybody is different so everybody needs their own individual approach to health and that's a really key aspect of the course that we've developed. So hopefully you'll pick that up from lecture one in how the body works and that will be translated all the way through the course. We are of course a naturopathic college which basically means you know we do look at the whole person, we look at every person individually and we also do our very best to look and understand the ultimate causes behind illness and as a practitioner myself I can tell you that that's pretty one of the key things that makes somebody a great practitioner in any field in medicine so we'll be talking a lot about the actual causes and the roots behind illness. So what I wanted to do today is kind of navigate you or help you to navigate around our Moodle website which we call CNM online. So as online students this is something that you will get very familiar with and even for those of you who perhaps aren't technical pros it does not matter at all because CNM online is very easy to use, it's very interactive, we've worked really hard to make sure that everybody can use this platform and it's good, it's great and as you'll see in a moment's time it's very much friendly for everybody. So what I'm going to do is to share my screen with you so that you can see what this looks like. So then everybody so this is what the CNM online platform looks like as you can see this is unit one, this is module one, how the body works and as you go between the five different modules that make up the health coach course you will notice that this title will change and that's when as you'll see shortly you go as per your scheduled timetable. So if I just scroll down for you here you'll see that we've got this resources, this course resources bar which is just across the top of the page there and then as we move down we've got these boxes that we call tiles. These are interactive tiles which basically means that when you hover over them they respond as you can see as I highlight over key resources something happens there it kind of pops out and when you then click a tile it then opens up this new section whereby you can scroll down and there is the information there that you need. So for example when you open up lecture one which is this tile here it will open up telling you that lecture one is covering cells and genetics and then as you scroll down the page you've got little bits of information about your lecture materials so here this will be your lecture slides this will be your lecture PowerPoint and then you see you've got this little icon here telling you that you'll be able to watch the film's lectures and then as we scroll down there are lots of different little links here in this lecture there are seven sections and so by clicking on any of those sections it opens up that specific part of the video so I'll be coming back to that in just a moment's time but first of all I just wanted to give you a little bit of an overview of the the basic points behind the course and to do that I'm going to open up the study guide which is very easy to find it's right at the top of CNM online. Now the study guide is something that I would like all of you to go away and look at today ideally if you're beginning your study today which is fantastic if you can do that then before you start getting stuck into any of the actual lecture materials just try and familiarise yourself with what the course is all about so this document will talk through a little bit about the course it will give you some bits of advice in terms of studying which is really important because we are aware that many of our students on the course have not studied for a really long period of time so this will help for you just to get a little bit of background with a few basic bits of advice and tips some of which are very basic but they're so important and often from my experience in education it's often the more simple things that people forget. If you enjoyed this video please give it a like and subscribe below so you don't miss any future content. To learn more about CNM or its courses head to www.naturopathy-uk.com